page_title: Communist Party of Vietnam
section_title: "Superiority of socialism"
hierarchical_section_title: Communist Party of Vietnam / Ideology / "Superiority of socialism"
caption_attribution_description: Panneau pour le 80ème anniversaire de la fondation du parti communiste vietnamien Le Parti communiste vietnamien a été fondé par Hô Chi Minh en 1930. Il était alors appelé Parti communiste indochinois. www.dangcongsan.vn/
context_page_description: The Communist Party of Vietnam is the founding and ruling communist party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Although it nominally exists alongside the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, it maintains a unitary government and has centralised control over the state, military and media. The supremacy of the Communist Party is guaranteed by Article 4 of the national constitution. The CPV was founded in 1930 by Hồ Chí Minh; since 1954, it has been the ruling party in the country alongside the former South Vietnam when it took over in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War. It also controls the military, the People's Army of Vietnam.
  The CPV is organized on the basis of democratic centralism, a principle conceived by Russian Marxist theoretician Vladimir Lenin which entails democratic and open discussion on policy on the condition of unity in upholding the agreed upon policies. The highest institution of the CPV is the party's National Congress which elects the Central Committee. In between party congresses, the Central Committee is the supreme organ on party affairs.
context_section_description: There has never been a scientific and revolutionary theory like Marxism–Leninism. It is a 'comprehensively and logically tight theory which gives people a total world view' and a theory that not only aims at 'understanding the world, but also changing it'. [...] Capitalism will certainly be replaced by socialism, because that is the law of human history, which no one can deny.
  — Nguyễn Văn Linh, the leader who initiated Đổi Mới, opposed the view that fundamental principles of Marxism–Leninism were to be changed, or rejected because of the introduction of market-elements into the economy.
  The Communist Party believes that socialism is superior to other ideologies and state systems. According to Marxism–Leninism, socialism is the second-to-last stage of socio-economic development before pure communism. To build a socialist society, communists have to imagine, outline and study society. The party believes that socialism leads to human liberation from every oppressive situation, exploitation and injustice. While the founders of Marxism–Leninism forecasted the main characteristics of a socialist society, the founders are not considered by the party to hold the whole truth. The main outline of this ideology is upheld by the party—that is, a social mode superior and more advanced:
  The highest goal of socialism is to liberate the people from every yoke of exploitation and economic slavery of the spirit, enabling comprehensive human development.
  The facilities of socialism are the forces generated by modern advanced production.
  Socialism is the gradual abolition of private property and capitalism and changes to the means of production.
  Socialism creates labour organizations and a new form labourer with high discipline and productivity.
  Socialism means the implementation of the principle of each according to his contribution.
  State socialism is a new kind of democracy, reflecting the nature of the working class and representing the interests, power and will of the working people.
  In a socialist society, the relationship between class and ethnicity will be resolved through a combination of international and class solidarity—nationalism will be replaced by internationalism.
caption: The Communist Party's poster commemorating the 80th founding and equating the party with "peace, prosperity and happiness"
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